The 1st one i caught back in the 80s in a 1and1/2 coil staked in a pocket set was 69# , the last one I caught about 9 years ago was also 69 # and caught in a rat set 1 and. 1/2 coil on a drag. Thats really only 2 i ever put on a scale. I don't think I've caught 200 beaver in my 47 year of trapping. The funny thing is the only time i ever got serious about trapping them i caught 69 spring trapping about 10 days and I decided I didn't realy like skinning beaver.

My biggest is 69lbs

Sniperb, me too. I even carry a spring scale in my truck most of the time. The 58-6 pounder, everyone including some real experienced trappers said 80 on that one = sorry 58 -6 and I had the receipt form the mill, that one was a LONG walk and I hav e a bad back too....jk

75 lbs

weight didn't matter much to me either, except somewhere back in the 70's when a local buyer was paying $1/lb for carcass coon. Lot's of disappointed sellers when their 20-25 lb coon tipped the scale at 13.

70 pounds and have had a couple more that were about the same weight.

74 Large female backwaters of Mississippi River

86 lb a few years back in a small water crest creek. Its mate was over 20 lb lighter. Couldn't just toss it over the closed tailgate of the truck like I used to do. Luckily the truck was parked on the bank right above the set. Amazing!

I don't know what they weighed, but I caught 2 nice beaver about 15 years ago that went for $210 a piece at NAFA. Man, I used to be able to make money trapping beaver through the ice, but not anymore.

I am a weight watcher.......I have always been prone to throw my beasts on a scale. Mostly out of curiosity, but also like SNIPERB, to verify. So many guys seem to fudge their numbers that it actually makes the real weighed-on-a-scale weights seem bogus, or small. On MANY occasions I have weighed critters like deer, bear, 'coon, etc. for taxidermy customers and they still told everyone a pumped up weight. A couple even said my scale was junk and to not have me weigh stuff for them! It got to be a joke between my All Purpose Boy and I. I got to the point that I wouldn't offer to scale a beast unless I was certain the guy was real close on his guessing what it weighed. Once had a fella swoop in the driveway and jump out all excited....said he finally caught the 20 lb pike he'd been hoping for his whole fishing career. I, unfortunately, had a spring scale right there in plain sight and he wanted to weigh it to see right to the ounce what the fish weighed. I knew better, but like the dumb a** I am, I laid that 36'ish inch Northern up on the scale....13 pounds. The guys chin nearly bounced off the floor. He grabbed the pike, said "If it don't weigh 20 lbs, I ain't mounting it!". He then left without another word. Putting said pike on that scale was not one of my best business decisions.

Thanks for all the posts folks, I'm an odd duck and find these types of threads interesting as the dickens.

Beaver trapping for two years now. I happened to catch a 60# this year.

78 lbs. Late 80s his head took up the whole 330 and it bent one of the jaws I still have the trap, easy to identify with it being bent.

72-74#'er(not certified scale) three footed beaver from the smallest house I have even seen. It was on a small island in a stream with trench dug dug in from each side so in may have just been some wood fortifying the top of a bank den. The most for sure beaver set I've ever come across setting 330 BG in each 12" w x 36" d channel each side. Actually caught beaver exiting stabilizing second BG. Thought I had sprung trap and almost reached for top of trap to see when it started really shaking and tail and feet erupted from the water. Lots of heavy breathing on my part. Not quite the same as an m'rat getting caught while setting, LOL. As I am not in prime MN beaver area they seem often get to live long protected lives in private areas or they are dispersing 2yr olds. Take almost as many 60's as 30's. There's also the "northern animals are larger" factor. We NEED that extra body mass to survive - or so I try to tell my doctor.

A few years back I snared a beaver with a bait pole I would have loved to weigh. It flattened the BMI slide free lock on the snare but it still held. Again....long walk to the truck!

72 LBS for walleyed.

72#

Kinda surprised from you, being rather scientific and college educated.

71lbs last fall. Those big ones sure have BIG tales.

Truth

I had one 72 another 74 pounds. In both cases they were caught in the traps that were the farthest from the truck. One was through a tangle of alder brush.